Explore150: Go Canada!
What place in Canada most defines you as a Canadian? Vote while you’re here, then follow us @Explore150 to join the discussion and show us on Instagram #Explore150!
Through this participatory process, you will identify and vote for your favourite natural, historic, and cultural sites across each province and territory, ultimately choosing the Canadian places and milestones we highlight in our Explore150 mobile app – to be launched November 1st! Stay tuned for updates on the project.
Do you have questions, comments or want to get involved? Get in touch through Explore150@takingitglobal.org
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Cypress Hills Massacre
The site where American traders attacked a Nakoda camp and killed a number of inhabitants; one of the first major tests of Canada's law enforcement policies in Western Canada
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Doukhobors at Veregin
The administrative, distribution and spiritual centre for the Doukhoborsettlements in the region, the focus of which is a large prayer house
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Forestry Farm Park and Zoo
Opened as a tree nursery station and model farm under the federal Department of the Interior in order to develop new and scientific farming methods; now a municipal zoo
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Fort Pitt
An archaeological site containining the remains of two Hudson's Bay Companyforts; the second fort was burned during the North-West Rebellion by Big BearÕs followers after the North West Mounted Police had withdrawn to Battleford
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ële--la-Crosse
A pre-contact gathering place for Aboriginal peoples, where Louis Primeauestablished a trading post in 1775; the site served as an important provision depot for the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Companyestablished its first post here in 1799
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Williams Lake Stampede
Held annually, on the Canada Day long weekend, the Williams Lake Stampede features Canadian Professional Rodeo Association action including bull riding, barrel racing, bareback riding, tie-down roping, steer wrestling, team roping and chuckwagon races. The Williams Lake Stampede plays host to many top cowboys and international rodeo competitors from Canada and the United States most of which continue on the circuit to the Calgary Stampede, the following weekend.
The Stampede festivities also include a parade of floats from local organizations, such as 4H groups, native bands, community service groups, the stampede royalty and local merchants. There is also a carnival…1 vote -
Kawartha Trans Canada Trail
This 44 km long trail travels through three landscapes located in Southern Ontario- farmland, urban town/villages and hilly/rivers/lakes- very beautiful and accessible.
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The mountain parks! Specifically the hot springs that our national parks were founded on!
The Cave and Basin, that was discovered in 1985, which allowed for our government to create the third national park in the world set the start for all these places. So the hot springs in the mountain parks that we are still able to enjoy today.
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Pilot's Monument
Located high above Yellowknife's Old Town, this viewpoint offers panoramic views of the hard Yellowknife landscape while paying homage to the bush pilot's role in opening up the North.
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Ni'iinlii Njik (Fishing Branch) Territorial Park
The 6500 km2 Ni'iinlii Njik (Fishing Branch) Territorial Park and adjacent Habitat Protection Area are legacies of the Vuntut Gwitchin Land Claim agreement and a model of how governments can work together to protect a distinct and fascinating ecosystem and an enduring First Nation connection to the land.
Limestone caves, year-round open water, and early winter salmon runs support Grizzly Bear concentrations and huge trees rarely seen this far north.
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Kiever Synagogue
The Kiever Synagogue is a Modern Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Toronto, Canada. It was founded by Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine in 1912, and formally incorporated in 1914. The congregants were poor working-people, and services were led by members and held in their homes. Two houses were eventually purchased in the Kensington Market area, and in their place construction was completed on the current twin-domed Byzantine Revival building in 1927. The building was once the site of George Taylor Denison's home Bellevue.
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Bannock Point Petroforms - Whiteshell Provincial Park
The Bannock Point Petroforms are figures **** out on bedrock in the forms of turtles, snakes and humans, and also in abstract patterns. Anishinabe and other First Nations people believe that they were left here long ago for the benefit of all people that might visit this site to receive their teachings and healing
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Parc national des Hautes-Gorges de la rivière Malbaie
The Hautes-Gorges-de-la-Rivière-Malbaie are among the highest rock faces East of the Rockies. Breathtaking views and physical activity. This site is one of the most impressive natural site in the province of Quebec.
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Clayoquot Sound
Clayoquot Sound is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve on the west coast of Vancouver Island, and the site of milestone protests by environmental activitists in 1993, to oppose clearcut logging in the area.
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Fort George
Fort George is located in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. They have recreated the site to show what life would have been like during the 1800's, and have a number of buildings inside the fort walls that visitors can check out. Visitors can see how the soldiers and their families lived, what officer barracks looked like, and can climb up the watchtower. There are also demonstrations, including a musket show!
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Lake Superior Provincial Park
This large, rugged park sits on North America's largest Great Lake - near the home of the original inhabitants of the area, the Ojibwa, and now a major part of the Trans-Canada Highway (there called Highway 17). It is also an important area for shipping along the great lakes, which is an important part of international trade routes. It is also stunningly beautiful and largely untouched - like much of Canada's wilderness.
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MacBride Museum
Your Yukon adventure starts here! From Gold Rush fever to the birth of Whitehorse, the MacBride Museum gives the best and most entertaining overview of the colorful characters and groundbreaking events that built Canada's Yukon. Fun for the whole family, gold panning and historical skits daily during the summer months. Open all year.
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S. S. Klondike
This was the largest of the British Yukon Navigation Company's fleet that sailed the Yukon River in the first half of the 20th century. Beautifully restored to its 1937-40 appearance, the S.S. Klondike is a snapshot of the era of the riverboat in the Yukon.
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